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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's administration pledged on Monday to work with the United States for Mideast peace, but pointedly avoided any reference to Israeli-Palestinian peace talks or President Barak Obama's goal of a Palestinian state.

On Monday in Turkey, Obama said his administration would push for Palestinian state, underlining that Israel and the Palestinians agreed on that goal under the U.S.-backed "road map" peace plan and during a 2007 conference in Annapolis, Maryland, that were supposed to revive the plan. read the rest of theStory..

Do we REALLY have a new Israeli Administration here, or the same of oldpoliticians about to make the same mistakes they made the last time in office?

Binyamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party and Tzipi Livni's centrist Kadima party each try to build a coalition government after general elections, in which neither obtained the 61-seat bloc necessary to gain control of the parliament and become prime minister.

JERUSALEM, Feb. 13 -- Israel's election this week left doubts over who will become prime minister, but a clear majority of voters supported parties that regard military force, rather than peace talks, as the best way to safeguard the country.... (Read the whole Story)

Hopefully, the identity of the new government will be known quickly--and it will not be one worse than the current government leaving office.